Regarding what Josh Marshall and Atrios write: I recall the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the aerial photographs on the front page of the New York Daily News. I grew up having trouble falling to sleep because I thought that every plane passing overhead was going to be dropping The Bomb -- I listened for the sound of bombs falling. I didn't realize that other kids my age had the same fear until it came up in a discussion when I was in college. I wasn't unique, entire generations grew up with those fears.

The thing is, my fears were exaggerated, maybe even morbid, but, on the other hand, there was also every reason for them to be, since it was a distinct possibility that nuclear war could break out with the USSR at any moment, and the world would be devastated.

I lived with these fears until early adulthood, when the de-escalation of tensions between East and West gradually diminished them.

I live in Manhattan, so I'm not one to try to minimize the danger that terrorists represent, but neither am I inclined to make sweeping generalizations about Islam, as opposed to pointing at certain factions and movements which are dangerous. We just have to keep things in perspective.

If you read unfutz at least once a week, without fail, your teeth will be whiter and your love life more satisfying.

If you read it daily, I will come to your house, kiss you on the forehead, bathe your feet, and cook pancakes for you, with yummy syrup and everything.

(You might want to keep a watch on me, though, just to avoid the syrup ending up on your feet and the pancakes on your forehead.)

Finally, on a more mundane level, since I don't believe that anyone actually reads this stuff, I make this offer: I'll give five bucks to the first person who contacts me and asks for it -- and, believe me, right now five bucks might as well be five hundred, so this is no trivial offer.